Fasten your seatbelts, and get ready to test drive Kestrel yourself. After more than a year of development, we invite you to test Opera 9.5 alpha and tell us what you think about it. In short, Opera 9.5 alpha is:

Opera 9.24

Opera 9.24

changelog :
* Fixed an issue where external news readers and e-mail clients could be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Michael A. Puls II. See our advisory.
* Fixed an issue where scripts could overwrite functions on pages from other domains. See the advisory. Issue reported to Opera by David Bloom.

* Fine-tuned the new Opera skin.
* Improved drag/drop of tabs.
* Fixed problems with search engines when upgrading from Opera 9.2x.
* Fixed a stability issue when printing or when in print preview.
* Added an option to toggle mouse flips in opera:config (User Prefs - Enable Mouse Flips).
* Textarea inputs now clear when no-cache is set.
* Saving of images is no longer recorded in transfers.

Mail/News

* Feeds now show the first time when you subscribe.
* Corrected a stability issue that could occur when clicking the drop-down to switch views.
* Adjusted thread expanding in Mail when receiving new messages.
* Corrected a problem where multiple views (access points) show for the same account.

Display and Scripting

* Corrected a stability issue with User JS.
* Style sheets now load when navigating in history.
* window.close() now functions after invoking a context menu and when closing Opera Dragonfly.

Security

* Fixed an issue where [canvas] functions could reveal data from random places in memory, as reported by Philip Taylor. See our advisory.
* Fixed an issue that could be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Billy Rios. Details will be disclosed at a later date.
* Security status is now correctly set when navigating from HTTP to HTTPS.
* Corrected an issue related to OCSP and CRLs that would lower security.
* Note: This will take effect with the weekly update, or when checking manually for an update (Help > Check for Updates).

Miscellaneous

* Corrected a stability issue with Yahoo! Mail.
* TinyMCE 2.1.x editor now works properly.
* Printing of chat items has been improved.
* Reconnection of the IRC client has been adjusted and improved.
* Menus on deviantart.com now work properly.
* Eliminated unwanted line breaks in rich text editors.

Windows-specific changes

* Fixed a resource leak in the transfer window that could cause visual paint problems and other related problems.
* Command line parameters must now be specified before any URLs on the command line.

Mac-specific changes

* Improved the "Reuse current tab" feature in Opera Speed Dial.

UNIX-specific changes

* An Opera package for 64-bit Linux is now available.
* Corrected an issue that would prevent pages from closing on Qt4 builds.
* Improved the saving of changes to plugin configuration.

* Manipulating text input contents can allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Red XIII. See our advisory.
* HTML parsing flaw can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Alexios Fakos. See our advisory.
* Long hostnames in file: URLs can cause execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Vitaly McLain. see our advisory.
* Script injection in feed preview can reveal contents of unrelated news feeds, as reported by David Bloom. See our advisory.
* Built-in XSLT templates can allow cross-site scripting, as reported by Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team. See our advisory.
* Fixed an issue that could reveal random data, as reported by Matthew of Hispasec Sistemas. Details will be disclosed at a later date.
* SVG images embedded using tags can no longer execute Java or plugin content, suggested by Chris Evans

The last months we have focused on stabilizing and addressing issues reported by the community. Now it's time for everyone to start using Opera 10!
We hope you like Opera 10's new slick design, Visual Tabs, Turbo charged browsing and the other new features. Do you know anyone who hasn't tried yet? Spread the word and tell them about your favorite browser!

* Fixed
- Opening a shared Opera Unite URL from Trash and rendering a blank page
- Users not being informed that a valid name is already being used
- Wrong page opening for the Opera Unite Home application
- Opera asking for master password at startup instead of when the Password Manager is used
- "Search the Web for ..." not working when selected with a mouse
- The Ctrl+Z keyboard shortcut; now opens the most recently closed tab when all tabs are closed
- An issue with IRC links "Save linked content as"
- A problem showing thumbnails when hovering over tabs when tooltips are turned off
- Double clicking Opera Unite Home (while Opera Unite is running) opens two tabs instead of one
- Spatial Navigation causing a problem when approaching the end of a long document
- Opera Unite applications not starting after first install
- Tabless windows staying open when the "Allow windows with no tabs" preference is not checked
- An open widget not getting focus when double-clicking it in the Widgets panel
- Several string and translation issues
- IME (Input Method Editor) being automatically ON regardless of your previous settings
- IME (in a Japanese environment) always switches to hiragana at Opera start
- Error message appearing when opening HTML files if Opera is not already running
# Mail, News, Chat

* Fixed
- Using Ctrl+Enter in F2 dialog on mail view opens a page in the background and removes focus from the application
- The Opera Mail systray icon not appearing if you have a mail window open but not focused
- The hiding of certains types of mail in trash, drafts, sent, and outbox: now impossible to do so
- Missing drafts which should be present when in draft view
- Messages being incorrectly added to the mailing lists index
- Sent mail showing up in recieved mail when Mail configuration is IMAP
- Search not working in Sent items
- Not being able to send mail from a Windows host with underscores in hostname

* Fixed
- Fixed a heap buffer overflow in string to number conversion; see our advisory.
- Fixed an issue where error messages could leak onto unrelated sites; see our advisory.
- Fixed a moderately severe issue, as reported by Chris Evans of the Google Security Team; details will be disclosed at a later date.